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What do Biodiversity Scholars Search for? Identifying High-Level Entities for Biological Metadata

Title: What do Biodiversity Scholars Search for? Identifying High-Level Entities for Biological Metadata
Authors: Felicitas Löffler, Claas-Thido Pfaff, Naouel Karam, David Fichtmüller, Friederike Klan
Source: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Semantics for Biodiversity co-located with 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017)
Place: Vienna, Austria
Date: 2017-10-22
Type: Workshop Paper
Abstract:

Research questions in biodiversity are as diverse and heterogeneous as data are. Most metadata standards are mainly data-focused and pay little attention to the search perspective. In this work, we introduce a method to analyze the actual information need of biodiversity scholars based on two individual studies: (1) a series of workshops with domain experts and (2) an analysis of research and search questions collected in three different biodiversity projects. We finally present 12 high-level entities that appear in all kinds of biological data across the different sources evaluated.

URL: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1933/poster-paper-10.pdf